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   Jeremy Boyd, Feb 7th, 2007 @ 9:12am

   
   

   "Meanwhile, MySpace, which had hoped to play the role of kingmaker by awarding its traffic to the highest bidder, may be feeling a bit like a pawn stuck in the middle of a larger battle."
   
   I think this is a key point. MySpace is a small fish compared to a lot of more proven companies and business models out there. Sooner or later, advertisers are going to realize that the site is hideous to explore, completely unusable at times, and riddled with threats to the average web surfer. Like GeoCities before it, it will tumble.
   
   Meanwhile, Google, Yahoo!, and eBay seem likely to carry on long after MySpace's demise. MySpace is just a tool in their larger battle. Is this surprising? Did anyone REALLY think a community of children with emotional problems would out-capitalize some of the better tech companies in the world?

    

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   Wyatt, Feb 7th, 2007 @ 9:28am

   
   

   I would agree that myspace has a multitude of issues, but the user base is what’s important. No matter how messed up the site is or gets, it will still have a massive user base who are afraid to go anywhere else because they would have to start over with there friends list and customizations. The best thing for these companies to do is to upgrade or enhance the site. Keeping in mind the goal of the site and close to the original design. Hell, there is screwed up people everywhere, why not take advantage of the ones on myspace.
   
   The model is, find the users and push content.

    

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   arrg, Feb 7th, 2007 @ 10:25am

   
   

   Anyone who thinks myspace is just for kids

   Hasn't been paying attention. I have an account with 111 friends, 3 of them are under 22 (my son, and my brothers kids) the rest are old friends from high school, college, and current people I know.
   
   I use myspace as a way to keep in touch with people I don't talk with or see often. It's more interesting than email simply because I can pop on to my friends site and get a feel for what has been happening in their lives. The bulletins are great for making general announcements instead of emailing everyone, and there is always the pictures and music.
   
   I have no interest in changing to some other site because of the base I've created and the site always works fine for me. I should also point out I joined netflix because of an ad on myspace showing a free trial, so advertising does work there...

    

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   PhysicsGuy, Feb 7th, 2007 @ 10:33am

   
   

   Re: Anyone who thinks myspace is just for kids

   myspace isn't just for kids, it's for egotistical douche bags of all ages.

    

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   Anonymous Coward, Feb 7th, 2007 @ 11:25am

   
   

   Hey PhysicsGuy, is it egotistical to have friends?

    

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   anonymous bum, Feb 7th, 2007 @ 11:54am

   
   

   Firewall vendors and old AOL users

   All the firewall and spyware vendors that advertise on the local am station in my area love to say how they can block myspace.com for you to protect your children.
   
   What does that say about the site?
   
   People are concerned that all there are is a bunch of pedofiles looking for children there, which is not quite true. It is just a bunch of peeps that don't know how to really use the internet since they left AOL.

    

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   Justin, Feb 7th, 2007 @ 12:28pm

   
   

   Re: Anyone who thinks myspace is just for kids

   I actually agree with part of what you said. The part that said it's not just for kids. And that it's nice to browse their pages to see what's new (stalker-ish as it maybe.) It's nice to see new photos of someone you haven't seen in 10 years to see how much they have changed. We actually set up a reunion for my Highschool using myspace.
   
   However... saying myspace is better then email is just... um... wrong. The bulletins I've all but stopped paying attention to because it's mostly usless random crap.
   
   Those that think myspace is going away can just think about how long AOL has hung around.

    

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   Witty Nickname, Feb 7th, 2007 @ 1:13pm

   
   

   MySpace Ads

   I have a myspace account, and I use it occationally. I find their advertising scheme interesting. For example, myspace knows from my profile that I am a married male between 25-30. The biggest ads they show me are for an online dating site. At first I thought it was just a sad commentary on society until I saw one of the ads saying they do background checks to 'filter out marrieds'.
   
   Seems to me myspace could make a lot more money showing even slightly targeted ads, instead of showing the exact same thing to (I assume) everyone.

    

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   weebit, Feb 7th, 2007 @ 7:00pm

   
   

   kill the deal with ebay.

   I do not want ebay on MYSpace. ebay has just too much fraud going on as it is. To permit it on MYspace would ruin the popular site. ebay is a auction site. It has nothing in common with MYspace except more people for the ebay fraudsters to con. This is one deal I hope never goes through. If it does I can see many leaving myspace just because it is no more than a penny grabbing vulture.

    

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    Tesa, Jun 18th, 2009 @ 11:48am

    
    

    yes

     

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    Tesa, Jun 18th, 2009 @ 11:49am

    
    

    yes

     

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